Extensis Suitcase Fusion 3, Mac, SA, Box EFRU, FR Specifications

- 10 - designer is free to incorporate other typefaces into the design as well. To use these fonts consistently, the designer does the following: •

- 11 - Understanding the Suitcase Fusion interface Suitcase Fusion 3 offers all the power you need to manage fonts. The main window is divided into fi

- 12 - What's New in Suitcase Fusion 3 Suitcase Fusion 3 goes beyond desktop font management and gives you the tools to integrate hosted fonts—fr

- 13 - Upgrading to Suitcase Fusion 3 Upgrading from a previous version of Suitcase is a simple process. Before you install Suitcase Fusion 3, remove

- 14 - Typical Setup Suitcase Fusion is designed for publishers—web designers; freelance graphic designers; advertising agencies; publishers producing

- 15 - If you add fonts from removable media, for example CDs or DVDs, and you don't have enough space on your hard drive to store all these font

- 16 - Service Bureau or Printer Sample Setup Service bureaus and printers have font-management issues unlike most other users: handling the scores of

- 17 - Web Design Sample Setup Web design is a new use for Suitcase Fusion. Modern browsers give web designers the ability to use fonts on a web page

- 18 - Setting up Suitcase Fusion Before adding your fonts to Suitcase Fusion, you need to make a few basic decisions about how you would like Suitcas

- 19 - Font Vault benefits The Font Vault has many benefits, including: • Suitcase Fusion does not allow true duplicate fonts into the Vault. This m

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- 20 - Overriding system fonts If you attempt to activate a font that has the same PostScript name as an active system font, as long as the font is no

- 21 - Adding, Deleting and Collecting Fonts Adding, deleting, and collecting work as follows: • You add fonts to the selected library. You cannot a

- 22 - Adding Fonts as Sets To retain any current organization you have for fonts—for example, if you have folders of fonts for specific projects—you

- 23 - Scanning Fonts to Add When you add fonts, Suitcase Fusion performs a scanning process that finds, examines, and organizes all the fonts. The am

- 24 - To locate duplicate fonts: 1. Choose Edit > Find Fonts, or press Ctrl+F. 2. Choose Duplicates from the drop-down menu. This option shows d

- 25 - When deleting fonts, it's important to understand how fonts are removed. Fonts are typically only removed from the location that you have

- 26 - NOTE: When collecting for output, if a font was added to Suitcase Fusion in-place, the entire font file, and all faces included in that file ar

- 27 - Activating and Deactivating Fonts Suitcase Fusion lets you quickly find the fonts you need, and then activate and deactivate individual fonts,

- 28 - Activating Selected Fonts You can activate fonts temporarily (until you log off from your system) or permanently (until you deactivate them).

- 29 - Understanding Font Activation Suitcase Fusion can activate an almost unlimited number of individual font files. As always with a font manager,

Table of Contents Welcome to Suitcase Fusion ...

- 30 - The Suitcase Fusion Core Suitcase Fusion keeps fonts active through the use of a background application called the Suitcase Fusion Core. Becaus

- 31 - Sorting and Finding Fonts Suitcase Fusion provides many options for displaying the fonts within a library. You can decide which fonts to list a

- 32 - These criteria often produce multiple families with the same name, such as a TrueType Times from Apple and PostScript Times from Adobe. To tell

- 33 - Specifying Find Criteria If you need to search for fonts by more than name, the Find controls give you additional options. With this feature, y

- 34 - Using QuickMatch to Find Visually Similar Fonts QuickMatch allows you to find fonts in your local libraries and, if you are connected to the We

- 35 - Previewing Fonts While you're designing a document, you may need to identify a font by look rather than by name. To quickly show you what

- 36 - Customizing Preview Text You can display any text you want in the Preview pane by choosing an option from the Preview Type drop-down menu and e

- 37 - Tearing off a floating preview To tear off a floating preview: 1. Choose one or more fonts in the Fonts pane. 2. For each font preview that y

- 38 - The Glyph View Window The Glyph View Window allows you to view and compare the glyphs from selected fonts. This tool can be helpful when: • Co

- 39 - Working with Sets Within each library, you can group fonts into "sets" for specific clients, jobs, applications, or templates. An ad

Understanding Font Activation ...

- 40 - within the first folder. If you need to add nested folders as individual sets, select those folders and add them independently. For example, s

- 41 - Nesting Sets When organizing fonts, you can place sets within other sets, then manipulate the sets individually or all at once. For example, if

- 42 - Converting a Set to an Application Set An Application Set defines a group of fonts that will be activated temporarily whenever a specific appli

- 43 - Working with Classifications A font's classification (class) describes its general look in historic terms—serif, sans serif, script, old s

- 44 - Oldstyle: An Oldstyle serif typeface, such as Garamond, is characterized by low to moderate contrast, diagonal stress, and serifs with a round

- 45 - Applying Different Classifications to Fonts The classification applies to the font itself, so each font displays the same classification in all

- 46 - Deleting Custom Classifications You can delete custom classifications, but the default classifications cannot be deleted. When you delete a cus

- 47 - Working with Foundries In Suitcase Fusion, the foundry is the name of the company that licensed the font to your company. The foundry is not ne

- 48 - Applying Different Foundries to Fonts The foundry applies to the font itself, so the font displays the same foundry in all sets and all librari

- 49 - Deleting Custom Foundries You can delete custom foundries, but the default foundries cannot be deleted. When you delete a custom foundry, fonts

Modifying Keywords ...

- 50 - Working with Keywords Along with all of the information recorded with fonts when they are added to Suitcase Fusion—such as type, foundry, class

- 51 - Modifying Keywords When you edit keywords, changes affect fonts with that keyword in all libraries. Creating Keywords To start using keywords e

- 52 - Working with Styles • You can use the Find controls to list only fonts from specific styles. • You can create smart sets to display an up-to-

- 53 - Modifying Styles You can create new styles, edit custom styles, and delete custom styles, but the default styles cannot be modified. Changes to

- 54 - Working with Auto-Activation Plug-ins To automatically activate precisely the correct fonts used in documents, Suitcase Fusion includes plug-in

- 55 - Saving Font Sense Metadata with Documents Font Sense is designed to ensure that the precise fonts used in a document are auto-activated each ti

- 56 - background. Once you choose a library, you can begin opening documents with confidence that all the right fonts will be auto-activated. Choosin

- 57 - Picking the "Best" Fonts If you open documents that contain Font Sense metadata—and the appropriate library is selected—you should ra

- 58 - Enable Font Sense support By default, the plug-ins save detailed Font Sense data within documents, and then use that information to auto-activa

- 59 - Maintaining Your Font Vault To ensure that you never lose any of the work that you've put into adding and organizing your fonts, it's

- 6 - Welcome to Suitcase Fusion Extensis™ Suitcase Fusion™ is a powerful font management utility that gives you total and precise control over all of

- 60 - Backing up the Font Vault To backup your Font Vault, copy it to a network location or external disk, or burn a copy to a CD or DVD. NOTE: The F

- 61 - WebINK: Using Fonts on the Web Web typography has been a sore point for designers for years. Without doing a lot of work, there was no way to u

- 62 - Price Tier Fonts are grouped by their prices, so you can keep costs down for specific websites by setting the appropriate Price Tier for each T

- 63 - Opening and Using the WebINK Library Once connected to the WebINK service, you can browse available fonts by opening the WebINK Library. To ope

- 64 - Style In CSS, the "style" applies to much more than fonts. CSS is used to specify element color, background, size, position, and many

- 65 - Cascading Style rules can be defined in multiple places: • Inline style sheets are defined in the HTML element tag itself, and apply only to t

- 66 - References For more information about inheritance and how it works with cascading, see Inheritance and Cascading Styles in CSS (http://www.webd

- 67 - Typically a style rule that defines a font for use on a web page uses what is called a "fallback stack." The purpose of the fallback

- 68 - When you need to apply this to a few paragraphs, on a few pages, it isn't too bad. What hurts is when you want to change the font from Com

- 69 - Tips & Techniques There are many websites, book chapters, and blogs devoted to identifying "best practices" for using CSS. These

- 7 - Rest assured that you're covered • Automatically check your fonts for corruption, keeping problematic fonts out of your workflow. • With

- 70 - Rules with nuance These rules come from experience: once explained they are reasonable enough but aren't necessarily obvious at first. •

- 71 - WebINK & @font-face • Use WebINK! The WebINK font rental service gives you access to thousands of high-quality, affordable fonts. WebINK h

- 72 - To Learn More Here are some places to go for more information on Cascading Style Sheets. Learning • W3School CSS Tutorial:http://www.w3schools

- 73 - Managing Type Drawers You use Type Drawers in the WebINK service to assign fonts to one or more websites. You can create as many Type Drawers a

- 74 - Subsetting Fonts Often you will find that you will never use certain characters on your website. These are usually non-English or non-European

- 75 - Keep this in mind when you create Type Drawers. To avoid unnecessary billing, a good plan is to leave the Type Drawer in the disabled state, ad

- 76 - Using WebINK on Your Websites WebINK makes it straightforward to upgrade your existing sites to use custom fonts and to plan your new sites aro

- 77 - Web Preview controls Back and Forward Page through visited websites, removing any formatting changes. Address Bar Enter any web address,

- 78 - Printing the Web Preview You may want a physical example of how a website looks with specific fonts applied. You may even want to show a client

- 79 - A Simple CSS Example This shows exported WebINK CSS followed by a typical style assignment. @font-face { font-family: BigDaddy; src: url('

- 8 - Suitcase Fusion and Web Fonts You may have noticed that many websites share the same tired look for their text content. This is because web deve

- 80 - Modified CSS tags Here are some CSS tags for the above @font-face elements, modified to utilize multiple font-family definitions. Note the defi

- 81 - Compatible Browsers WebINK uses the @font-face capability of a browser to deliver fonts. Different browsers offer different levels of support f

- 82 - NOTE: There have been reports that Mobile Safari does not render a page correctly (and even crashes) if the page includes multiple fonts from t

- 83 - Font Subsets WebINK allows you to specify a subset of characters to be served for the fonts in your Type Drawer. See Adding Fonts to a Type Dra

- 84 - Western Europe The Western Europe set is a superset of the Adobe Latin 2 character set, which supports these languages: Afrikaans, Basque, Bret

- 85 - WebINK Workflows Your workflow using the WebINK service and tools may vary depending on the goal of the job at hand. If you are working with an

- 86 - If your site uses inline styles or an internal style sheet, we strongly advise that you consider undertaking the effort to move it to using a s

- 87 - Using WebINK from a Browser You can access the basic functionality of WebINK from a web browser. This can be convenient if, for example, you ar

- 88 - To view your account details, log in to the WebINK service at http://www.webink.com and follow the Edit Account link. You can also go to http:/

- 89 - Subsetting Your website may never use many of the characters that are available in a font. If you only need to display English or a Western Eur

- 9 - Registration and Serialization It is important to enter a serial number and register your copy of Suitcase Fusion so we can provide you with the

- 90 - Transferring a Type Drawer You can transfer a Type Drawer to another WebINK user. This is useful if, for example, you have used the service to

- 91 - About Extensis Contact Information Extensis 1800 SW First Avenue Suite 500 Portland, OR 97201 Toll Free: (800) 796-9798 Phone: (503) 274-2020 F

- 92 - Technical Support Technical Support is available directly through the Extensis website or by telephone. When contacting technical support, incl

- 93 - Index A ABC123 preview, 36 activating fonts, 27, 28, 29, 58 automatically, 55, 57 permanently, 29 temporarily, 29 activation status, 29 adding

- 94 - deleting custom, 49 modifying, 48 reverting to default, 48 G Geometric sans, 43 Glyph View, 38 Grotesque sans, 43 grouping fonts by family, 29,

- 95 - snapshot, 37 sorting, 31, 44 by foundry, 47 startup application, 30 style finding by, 52 styles, 52 applying, 52 creating custom, 53 deleting c